Baigent William (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 123 Sammlung von vier spannenden Werken, darunter Abenteuer und persönliche Erzählungen. Zustand: Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten geringfügig gebräunt, insgesamt GUTER Zustand. HC1-189-6/8-00541149 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 454.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). (1943) ND (c.1970 facsimile). 12 pp of typescript, printed on one side only. Dark blue cloth, upper board titled in gilt. 4to (176 x 227mm). This issue does not include the plate or flies. . With a short Preface by Arthur Howard Thompson, dated 1943. This is a later facsimile, probably produced by Jack Heddon of the Honey Dun Press around 1970. .…

ONE OF 65 COPIES (approx.), portrait frontispiece, four photographic plates, with 164 hackles mounted between perspex and framed in 11 loose mounts, with captions, mounts slightly warped (as usual), two with slight tear to mount, one faintly toned, endpapers of book with touch of spotting, pp. 31, 11 card mounts, 4to, original navy blue morocco gilt with worn glacine wrapper, book and mounts contained in original blue morocco gilt folding box, hinge slightly worn, very good. An exceptional, scarce resource for dry-fly tying cognoscenti, illustrated with a significant array of cock and hen hackles in gradations of natural and artificial colour. The introduction, by Lt-Col. W. Keith Rollo, notes that, on the author's death, his wife, to whom the text is dedicated, completed the edition, mounting the hackles for publication, and pays tribute to both Baigent's character, 'He was at his best in a gin clear, dead low water, and a bright sun.' and his innovative methods - the unusual size of his flies and the casting of dual flies to attract trout. From studying light refraction theories, Baigent believed that long-hackled dry flies created a more convincing imitation of the movement of wings than conventional flies, his 'Refracta' flies, marketed commercially by Hardy in the early 1930s. '.the person who is fortunate enough to be the possessor of a book by such a well known and skilful angler and fly tyer is to be congratulated' (Introduction). (T. Finger, Dr. Baigent and the Long-Hackled Fly, www.piscator.co.za). …